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Cumberland Farms has requested... “But as it stands now, we are instead forced to juggle hundreds of different and constantly-changing local requirements related to pricing, packaging, signage, product bans, licensing display methods, age verification pr

Smoking will no longer be allowed in nursing homes and other similar facilities as of Jan. 1. The Board of Health Monday night unanimously voted to add those facilities to the list of places where smoking is prohibited in the city.

Massachusetts taxpayers have shelled out an extra $542 million since state lawmakers voted three years ago to hike the tax on cigarettes and gasoline, with none of the cigarette revenue going directly to anti-smoking programs. That’s rankled some activis

A letter delivered to House lawmakers last week and signed by more than 1,000 managers and store employees of the Framingham-based chain said workers want their tobacco compliance efforts to be "second-nature." "But as it stands now, we are instead force

“SMOKING IS unhealthy” might be Jeff Jacoby’s only understatement in an opinion piece full of hyperboles...Raising the age of sale to 21 is not arbitrary; on the contrary, it is science-based and aimed at protecting our youth.... The bill pending in the L

A 47-year-old man was treated for second-degree burns to his hand after the battery pack of an electronic cigarette "exploded" in a room at the Radisson Hotel and Suites in Chelmsford early Saturday morning, according to firefighters.

CHELMSFORD (CBS) – A man suffered burns early Saturday morning after his electronic cigarette exploded inside a Chelmsford hotel. Firefighters responded to the Radisson just before 3 a.m. and found minor smoke and fire damage.

Jeff Jacoby points out that smokers are a “relatively powerless fraction of the population, frequently ostracized.”... poor health habits should not make any group relatively powerless in a democracy, and, while the dangers of secondhand smoke justify res